Fabrication Defect

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An original member of the Tropicalia movement that revolutionized Brazilian popular music in the late 1960s, Tom Ze is a longtime cultural cannibal who makes beautiful and intelligent music out of a fascinating range of materials. Fabrication Defect is an old-fashioned concept album in the sense that each song represents one of the charming imperfections--such as youth, stupidity, or dancing--that humanize an international population of third-world ghetto residents otherwise viewed as "subhuman androids." But Ze's ideology is easy to miss in a joyous melange of songs that borrow liberally from Portuguese cantalon, urban samba, musique concrète, and a wide assortment of rhythms from both Brazil's tropical Bahia region and dusty countryside. Ze's excoriation of the church and capitalism may be old-school, but his mixture of the traditional and modern (dig the accordion techno of "Xiquexique") is downright tomorrow. --Richard Gehr --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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Last of Brazil's Tropicalistas to Remain True to Form. He Combines Sweet Sambas and Concrete Poetry, Guitar, Accordions and Household Appliances to Form a Delightful Record. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Fabrication Defect

Fabrication Defect,Tom Zé,Warner Bros / Wea,Brazilian,Brazilian Pop,Int'l & World Music,MPB,Pop,Tropicalia,World Music

Average customer rating: Amazing! Some tracks excellent, others lacking brilliant Existe inteligência do lado de baixo do Equador Existe inteligência do lado de baixo do Equador

Fabrication Defect Tom Zé Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Jogos de Armar Elis & Tom Begin to Hope ASIN: B00000AG9N Release Date: 1998-09-15

Tracks:

1. Defect 1: Gene
2. Defect 2: Curiosidade
3. Defect 3: Politicar
4. Defect 4: Emere
5. Defect 5: O Olso Do Lago
6. Defect 6: Estericar
7. Defect 7: Dancar
8. Defect 8: Onv, Arma Mortal
9. Defect 9: Juventude Javali
10. Defect 10: Cedotardar
11. Defect 11: Tangolomango
12. Defect 12: Valsar
13. Defect 13: Burrice
14. Defect 14: Xiquexique

Amazon.com

An original member of the Tropicalia movement that revolutionized Brazilian popular music in the late 1960s, Tom Ze is a longtime cultural cannibal who makes beautiful and intelligent music out of a fascinating range of materials. Fabrication Defect is an old-fashioned concept album in the sense that each song represents one of the charming imperfections--such as youth, stupidity, or dancing--that humanize an international population of third-world ghetto residents otherwise viewed as "subhuman androids." But Ze's ideology is easy to miss in a joyous melange of songs that borrow liberally from Portuguese cantalon, urban samba, musique concrète, and a wide assortment of rhythms from both Brazil's tropical Bahia region and dusty countryside. Ze's excoriation of the church and capitalism may be old-school, but his mixture of the traditional and modern (dig the accordion techno of "Xiquexique") is downright tomorrow. --Richard Gehr

Album Details

Last of Brazil's Tropicalistas to Remain True to Form. He Combines Sweet Sambas and Concrete Poetry, Guitar, Accordions and Household Appliances to Form a Delightful Record.

Customer Reviews:

Amazing!.......2006-05-20

If you want to witness a revolution in music listen to it. Tom Ze is a genius that cannot be ignored. He sounds astonishing!

Some tracks excellent, others lacking.......2001-08-08

Preferring the Brazilian beats with more energy, I fell in love with only a few of the tracks on this CD. Some of the songs, I absolutely love, unfortunately, the majority are too slow and sappy for me. I love 'o gene' and 'o olho do lado'. 'Xiquexique' is bizarre and cool and other than that, the rest of the CD I could do without save the two remixes at the end.

brilliant.......2001-04-27

While other members of the Tropicalia movement have somewhat mellowed with age, the same certainly can not be said for the amazing, anarchic Tom Ze. The music he has produced over the years is as fresh and innovative today as it has ever been. As David Byrne simply wrote in liner notes for a Ze compilation cd, "Prepared to be unsettled."

"Fabrication Defect," from 1998, is Tom's latest offering to the world. On it, Ze continues his his wonderfully radical approach to music by incorporating everything at his disposal- hip hop beats, drum machines, techno, musique concrete, Tchaikovsky. It's all there. Ze proves, as always, that he is both a musical bandit, taking what he wants, yet also a brilliant composer.

"Fabrication Defect" proves his brilliance as a composer beyond a shadow of a doubt. The music is an alluring and inviting mix of the above mentioned styles, as well as traditional bossa novas and sambas. The words he uses are at once caustic, irony filled, yet immaculately graceful, as well. Ze has an obvious insight into human nature that can't be ignored.

The lp is wonderful, and also picks up the pace as it goes along. This is simply because the songs get shorter and shorter as the cd progresses. The highlights include "Emere," which has an otherworldly quality to it, "Juventude Javali," which clearly borrows from Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in d Minor, and the brilliant, Dylan-esque "Xiquexique."

Overall, the album sparkles with brilliance. Ze's use of all of these influences, and the wonderful production he offers it, makes this cd an instant classic, as well as a true representative of the Tropicalia movement (even if it was released 20 years after the fact). Ze's genius has never been greater. An awesome cd of the highest calibre.

Existe inteligência do lado de baixo do Equador.......1999-11-23

Espaço exíguo... Como escrever com profundidade em tão pouco espaço sobre um artista tão seminal como TZ? Este album é essencial, tanto pelo trabalho musical em si, com arranjos de ourivesaria, quanto pelo marco histórico de sobrevivência (com dignidade) na carreira de um artista que não se basta com a mediocridade deste mundo. Exercício de musicalidade e de originalidade, a música de TZ mostra que, neste mundo pseudoglobalizado idiotizante, há ainda espaço para genialidade e respeito em um trabalho musical 'pop'. Se vc está mesmo interessado neste imperdível album do TZ, recomendo a edição brasileira. Ela possui algumas faixas adicionais.

Existe inteligência do lado de baixo do Equador.......1999-11-23

Espaço exíguo... Como escrever com profundidade em tão pouco espaço sobre um artista tão seminal como TZ? Este album é essencial, tanto pelo trabalho musical em si, com arranjos de ourivesaria, quanto pelo marco histórico de sobrevivência (com dignidade) na carreira de um artista que não se basta com a mediocridade deste mundo. Exercício de musicalidade e de originalidade, a música de TZ mostra que, neste mundo pseudoglobalizado idiotizante, há ainda espaço para genialidade e respeito em um trabalho musical 'pop'. Se vc está mesmo interessado neste imperdível album do TZ, recomendo a edição brasileira. Ela possui algumas faixas adicionais.

Average customer rating:

Com Defeito de Fabricacao (Fabrication Defect) Tom Zé Manufacturer: Luaka Bop ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Similar Items: Cê ASIN: B0007XT858 Release Date: 2005-03-22

Tracks:

1. Gene
2. Curiosidade
3. Politicar
4. Emere
5. O Olho Do Lago
6. Esteticar (Backbone Song)
7. Dan
8. Onu, Arma Mortal
9. Juventude Javali
10. Ce Dotar Dar
11. Tangolomango
12. Valsar
13. Burrice
14. Xiquexique

Average customer rating: Amazing! Some tracks excellent, others lacking brilliant Existe inteligência do lado de baixo do Equador Existe inteligência do lado de baixo do Equador

Com Defeito de Fabricacao (Fabrication Defect) Tom Zé Manufacturer: Luaka Bop ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Jogos de Armar Elis & Tom Begin to Hope ASIN: B00004RD2F Release Date: 2000-03-28

Tracks:

1. Defect 1: Gene
2. Defect 2: Curiosidade
3. Defect 3: Politicar
4. Defect 4: Emere
5. Defect 5: O Olho Do Lago
6. Defect 6: Esteticar
7. Defect 7: Dancar
8. Defect 8: Onu, Arma Mortal
9. Defect 9: Juventude Javali
10. Defect 10: Cedotardar
11. Defect 11: Tangolomango
12. Defect 12: Valsar
13. Defect 13: Burrice
14. Defect 14: Xiquexique

Amazon.com

An original member of the Tropicalia movement that revolutionized Brazilian popular music in the late 1960s, Tom Ze is a longtime cultural cannibal who makes beautiful and intelligent music out of a fascinating range of materials. Fabrication Defect is an old-fashioned concept album in the sense that each song represents one of the charming imperfections--such as youth, stupidity, or dancing--that humanize an international population of third-world ghetto residents otherwise viewed as "subhuman androids." But Ze's ideology is easy to miss in a joyous melange of songs that borrow liberally from Portuguese cantalon, urban samba, musique concrète, and a wide assortment of rhythms from both Brazil's tropical Bahia region and dusty countryside. Ze's excoriation of the church and capitalism may be old-school, but his mixture of the traditional and modern (dig the accordion techno of "Xiquexique") is downright tomorrow. --Richard Gehr

Album Details

Last of Brazil's Tropicalistas to Remain True to Form. He Combines Sweet Sambas and Concrete Poetry, Guitar, Accordions and Household Appliances to Form a Delightful Record.

Customer Reviews:

Amazing!.......2006-05-20

If you want to witness a revolution in music listen to it. Tom Ze is a genius that cannot be ignored. He sounds astonishing!

Some tracks excellent, others lacking.......2001-08-08

Preferring the Brazilian beats with more energy, I fell in love with only a few of the tracks on this CD. Some of the songs, I absolutely love, unfortunately, the majority are too slow and sappy for me. I love 'o gene' and 'o olho do lado'. 'Xiquexique' is bizarre and cool and other than that, the rest of the CD I could do without save the two remixes at the end.

brilliant.......2001-04-27

While other members of the Tropicalia movement have somewhat mellowed with age, the same certainly can not be said for the amazing, anarchic Tom Ze. The music he has produced over the years is as fresh and innovative today as it has ever been. As David Byrne simply wrote in liner notes for a Ze compilation cd, "Prepared to be unsettled."

"Fabrication Defect," from 1998, is Tom's latest offering to the world. On it, Ze continues his his wonderfully radical approach to music by incorporating everything at his disposal- hip hop beats, drum machines, techno, musique concrete, Tchaikovsky. It's all there. Ze proves, as always, that he is both a musical bandit, taking what he wants, yet also a brilliant composer.

"Fabrication Defect" proves his brilliance as a composer beyond a shadow of a doubt. The music is an alluring and inviting mix of the above mentioned styles, as well as traditional bossa novas and sambas. The words he uses are at once caustic, irony filled, yet immaculately graceful, as well. Ze has an obvious insight into human nature that can't be ignored.

The lp is wonderful, and also picks up the pace as it goes along. This is simply because the songs get shorter and shorter as the cd progresses. The highlights include "Emere," which has an otherworldly quality to it, "Juventude Javali," which clearly borrows from Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in d Minor, and the brilliant, Dylan-esque "Xiquexique."

Overall, the album sparkles with brilliance. Ze's use of all of these influences, and the wonderful production he offers it, makes this cd an instant classic, as well as a true representative of the Tropicalia movement (even if it was released 20 years after the fact). Ze's genius has never been greater. An awesome cd of the highest calibre.

Existe inteligência do lado de baixo do Equador.......1999-11-23

Espaço exíguo... Como escrever com profundidade em tão pouco espaço sobre um artista tão seminal como TZ? Este album é essencial, tanto pelo trabalho musical em si, com arranjos de ourivesaria, quanto pelo marco histórico de sobrevivência (com dignidade) na carreira de um artista que não se basta com a mediocridade deste mundo. Exercício de musicalidade e de originalidade, a música de TZ mostra que, neste mundo pseudoglobalizado idiotizante, há ainda espaço para genialidade e respeito em um trabalho musical 'pop'. Se vc está mesmo interessado neste imperdível album do TZ, recomendo a edição brasileira. Ela possui algumas faixas adicionais.

Existe inteligência do lado de baixo do Equador.......1999-11-23

Espaço exíguo... Como escrever com profundidade em tão pouco espaço sobre um artista tão seminal como TZ? Este album é essencial, tanto pelo trabalho musical em si, com arranjos de ourivesaria, quanto pelo marco histórico de sobrevivência (com dignidade) na carreira de um artista que não se basta com a mediocridade deste mundo. Exercício de musicalidade e de originalidade, a música de TZ mostra que, neste mundo pseudoglobalizado idiotizante, há ainda espaço para genialidade e respeito em um trabalho musical 'pop'. Se vc está mesmo interessado neste imperdível album do TZ, recomendo a edição brasileira. Ela possui algumas faixas adicionais.

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